The American Spectator : Yes, “The One” Should Fail
We will not be intimidated, we will not be bullied, we will not be silenced, and we will not lose. Barack Obama’s thugocracy is dishonest, dangerous, and malicious, but it cannot be stronger than the aroused might of a free people. His foreign policy deliberately debases U.S. interests rightly understood, in an effort to suborn our sovereignty in favor of a United Nations he in turn wants to control. But even on foreign policy, there are certain checks on his power that can be called into play. We who oppose his aims — yes, Michael Wilbon (Washington Post sportswriter who blasted Rush Limbaugh), we who hope that Obama, who happens to be “a black man,” fails, and fails miserably at those ends — must not, however, fall into Obama’s Alinskyite traps. We must keep our own eyes on the ball.
The ball right now is the unprecedented power grab in the name of health care. That is Obama’s whole immediate domestic ball of wax. Because Obama is losing on the issue, losing quite badly, in the court of public opinion, he is trying to change the subject and distract our attention so we, the broad American public, will ease our pressure against Democrats skittish of doing a lemming act on health care. If we ease our pressure on them on health care in order to fight Obama on other fronts, those skittish Democrats might succumb to the White House pressure instead and use parliamentary tricks to pass the legislative monstrosity Obama seeks.
That’s what the attack on Fox News is all about: It’s a distraction. That’s what the attack on Rush Limbaugh was and is: a distraction. Attack on the TEA partiers: distraction. Attack on insurance companies, and so on and on: distraction. distraction, distraction, distraction. “The basic tactic in warfare,” wrote Obama’s organizational idol, Saul Alinsky, “is a mass political jujitsu.” And “the real action is in the enemy’s reaction.” And “the major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition,” so “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
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